Ending Malnutrition by 2020: An Agenda for Change in the Millennium - Final report to the ACC/SCN by the commission on the nutrition challenges of the 21st century (ACC/SCN, 2000, 104 p.)

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Executive Summary: Main Messages of the Commission Report

1. Recent Progress

1.1 International declarations for action in the 1990s

1.2 Progress in accelerating improvements for nutrition

1.3 The case for investing in nutrition

1.4 Setbacks to progress: nutritional well-being during economic crisis

2. Global Nutrition Challenges: A Life-Cycle Approach

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2.1 Poor nutrition starts in utero

2.2 Adult undernutrition

2.3 Micronutrient deficiencies are major public health problems in nutrition

2.4 Changing food consumption patterns

2.5 Preventing premature adult death and disability

3. Societal Issues Underlying Malnutrition: Implications for Progress

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3.1 Conceptual framework

3.2 Poverty and nutrition

3.3 Women

3.4 Care

3.5 Education

3.6 Key role of local communities

3.7 The importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

3.8 The potential for public-private co-operation

3.9 Purposeful action: the need for equity

4. Food, Agriculture and Environment: Future Challenges

4.1 Food as an important determinant of nutritional status

4.2 The constraints to meeting future demands

4.3 Other forces affecting food security: trade, global finance and new technology

4.4 Food production and food security: meeting the challenges

5. Food, Nutrition and Human Rights

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5.1 What difference does a rights-based approach make?

5.2 The International Code of Conduct of the Human Right to Adequate Food

6. Vision and Goals for the Future

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6.1 A Vision

6.2 Achieving rapid progress for the 21st century

6.3 The need to review goals and options

6.4 Integrating goals for diet-related diseases

6.5 An integrated approach

7. Establishing a New Agenda for Change

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7.1 Developing regional and national policies

7.2 Improving UN Mechanisms

7.3 National-level developments

7.4 Linking national policy developments and actions to international support

7.5 Key international issues relating to nutrition

7.6 Conclusions and priorities

Annex 1: The Establishment and Membership of the Commission

Annex 2: Existing Nutrition Goals which Should be Maintained, Developed or Refined

Annex 3: Ending Undernutrition in India by 2020

Annex 4: Issues to be Considered by Regional and National Meetings

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